Things that are downright horrifying usually do seem unreal. The mind won't believe it. But it's real:

Yet another chapter in the growth of the American Surveillance State. At this point, seven years after it was revealed that the Bush administration was spying on Americans without the warrants required by law, this sort of perpetual growth in post-9/11 surveillance has pretty much become the norm.

"And what was with that jetliner flat-spinning into the city like that? Did the laws of inertia disappear the same time electricity did?"

Anyone who wants to understand why philosophy is important, and why Lawrence Krauss is wrong in his statements, should read this piece: